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Job Description and Experience

Minimal work direction needed, highly skilled and knowledgeable to the position and provides best practicing sharing within work group. Windows System Engineer. Skilled in automation for hosted applications. 
Act as a liaison in meetings with vendors and development groups, bringing an operational perspective to the SDLC and taking away operations deliverables, dates and architecture changes as needed. Involved in deploying, monitoring and supporting solutions that provision hosted applications. Interacting with internal customers supporting external customers, corporate and vendor IT staffs to provide world-class production support. Develop scripts and utilize industry standard tools for Windows system automation. Architect systems using automation for security, while providing scalability, reliability, and performance. Develop and utilize internal strategies for script, code, and automation versioning. Collaborate with developers, vendors and professional service organizations to plan Windows automation strategies for implementing new systems and services. Provide support for operational systems including supporting upgrades and the resolution of production problems in a timely manner.

Required Experience:
4+ years experience supporting network and security operating systems

Preferred Experience

Preferred Experience:
Associates degree and/or MCSE certification
Minimum 4+ years experience deploying and supporting monitoring solutions in co-located facilities, managed virtual, and in public and private clouds.
Minimum 4+ years experience supporting applications in hosted environments.
Understanding of deployment tools like Windows Power Shell or SCCM
Understanding of provisioning and hypervisor platforms like VMWare to deploy virtual servers.
Hands-on experience supporting network infrastructure in larger environments (more than 50 nodes).
Experience with Windows patching and virtual machines creation and maintenance.
Experience with code versioning, scripts, and industry best practices.
Knowledge of with high availability and disaster recovery methods for complex applications deployed in multiple regions.
Knowledge of all standard system administrator functions such as server build outs, monitoring, patch/security updates, antivirus, backups, restores, asset management, 24X7 support, pager duty, etc.
Unwavering operations and customer focus.
Highly motivated team player.
Creative problem solving skills.
Accountability.
Ownership of tasks and projects with 100% follow through to completion.
Ability to follow process and create process where there is none.
Contribute to the overall operational maturity of the team.
Ability to support out of hours system upgrades and production problems in an on-call duty roster. 

Certifications: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)